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"I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel."
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"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"
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"'Tis not every question that deserves an answer."
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"But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking."
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"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."
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"Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's."
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"It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like."
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"I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors."
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"There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too."
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"The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere."
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"We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?"
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"In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary."
Writing
"My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth."
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"Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research."
Writing
"In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination."
Imagination
"I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer."
Writing
"It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too."
Man
"I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand."
Love
"My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow."
Will
"The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did."
Thought
"She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's."
Life
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